You know you need to catch a breakbut you don’t know what kind these days?

Your life is sliding down the tubesand you’re just numb, resigned these days?

The freak in the mirror’s telling youyou just might lose your mind these days?

What else is new, Ric? It’s a life.A good one’s hard to find these days.

ERIC TORGERSEN is Emeritus Professor of English at Central Michigan University. His most recent collection of poems is Heart, Wood. (Word Press, 2012). He has published ghazals in New Letters, New Ohio Review, Pleiades, 32 Poems, New Madrid, Spillway and others, including an earlier issue of The Ghazal Page.

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